If you still haven’t done anything, Microsoft says “your content may be deleted”. Microsoft says: “That means that you will not be able to access the content in your OneDrive until you take action.” It doesn’t say what action you have to take, but I’d guess it involves selecting which files or folders to delete.Ĥ. If you are still over quota after another nine months, your OneDrive account will be locked.
However, you will still have nine months to download your files.ģ. If you are still over quota after 90 days, you will no longer be able to upload any files. Your account will function normally for 90 days, to give you plenty of time to download any data that you don’t already have backed up.Ģ. However, when it happens, users who are over quota will be notified by email that they have one year to download their data. Hundreds of millions of OneDrive accounts are involved, so it will take weeks to roll out the new system.
(Office 365 includes Microsoft Office software as well.) Alternatively, you could buy 50GB of OneDrive storage for $1.99 a month. This normally costs £59.99 a year, and is good value if you need that much storage.
People who were actually using more than 5GB of storage – which is a very small minority – should also have had an email offering a free one-year subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Personal, which includes 1TB of storage. I can only assume you missed the offer, which closed on January 31.
It was quick and easy, so I can’t imagine why anybody wouldn’t do it. Kudos to the developers for a job well done.Ĭlick here to get started with MultCloud.To keep your storage, you had to click a link in a Microsoft email, then click a button to take up the offer. I like primarily because lets you connect to multiple accounts and to transfer files without downloading them first, but there’s a lot more to recommend it. Multiple panes for file management (dual/triple?), with a different account visible on each.Ī very nice service that takes care of issues that other services like it sometimes miss.An indicator or gauge of size and usage for each account added to the interface (i.e.Dragging and dropping to move/copy files (rather than copying/pasting).Wish list (a few ideas to improve this service) But I would guess that Mobile apps will eventually come. Availability of mobile apps and/or a desktop client Search (can you search across all connected accounts) Note that copying is done via copy and pasting rather than drag and drop 5. The transfers happened rather quickly, without any spikes in my bandwidth activity.
I know that (b) above is the case because I copied hundred of megs worth of stuff from one account to another while running a bandwidth monitoring program on Windows to watch for downloading/uploading activity. Whether you could (a) transfer files from one account to another, and (b) transfer without downloading and uploading locally You can, which is great, because some of the other services we reviewed strangely would not support this, as simple as it might sound. Whether you could connect to multiple accounts from the same service Would be great if they supported some of our other favorites (CX, SpiderOak, and Wuala), but an adequate selection all the same.
The four ‘big’ services (Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and Amazon S3), plus Box and SugarSync.
The sidebar on the left allows for quick access to all connected accounts however, it strangely does not support dragging and dropping of files (either to folders or to the sidebar), so there’s room for improvement there. May not visually look as pretty as some of the other tools we reviewed, but it is functional and practical. This is the reason why the screenshots displayed here show ‘DropInOne’ rather than MultCloud, but they are the exact same service.īut let’s start at the beginning, with some of the typical features/issues that this sort of service would have to have. Important Note: this service used to be called ‘DropInOne’, but was changed to ‘MultCloud’ due to trademark conflict issues with Dropbox.
Specifically, the ability to simultaneously connect to several accounts from the same service, but more importantly the ability to copy files from one cloud storage account to another straight, without having to download it on your desktop first and reupload. I will say, upfront, that MultCloud gets our thumbs up for several of it’s features. This concept is not new, of course we’ve actually reviewed a number of these ‘ cloud aggregator‘ tools, so we know what to look for when we put them to the test. wouldn’t it be great if you could manage and/or access all of your files across all of these services simultaneously from a single place? This is precisely what free online app MultCloud does. So you have a Dropbox account (or several of them), Google Drive account(s), Box, SkyDrive, etc.